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Sapphic adj.

Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse.

(Pros.) Belonging to, or in the manner of, Sappho; said of a certain kind of verse reputed to have been invented by Sappho, consisting of five feet, of which the first, fourth, and fifth are trochees, the second is a spondee, and the third a dactyl.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sapphic" Quotes from Famous Books

... make crackers. Cooking is a sensual, grovelling utterance of feeling, you think? Yet, considering the drift of most women's lives, one fancies that as pure and deep love syllables itself every day in beefsteaks as once in Sapphic odes. It is a natural expression for our sex, too, somehow. Your wife may keep step with you in keen sympathy, in brain and soul; but if she does not know whether you like muffins or toast best for breakfast, ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, Number 59, September, 1862 • Various

... fr. 158 (Meineke), Okeanos, to pasa perirrytos endedetai chthon; c. 63, the 'Attis' in Galliambic metre; c. 62, a translation of a Sapphic epithalamium. C. 51, and possibly some parts of c. 61, are from Sappho. Catullus was the first Roman to use the Sapphic measure ...

— The Student's Companion to Latin Authors • George Middleton

... result of a diseased brain-centre, and that what they describe is not love, but a phase of erotic pathology. Normal sexual appetite is as natural a passion as the hunger for food; it is simply a hunger to perpetuate the species, and without it the world would soon come to an end; but Sapphic passion is a disease which luckily cannot become epidemic because it cannot perpetuate itself, but must ...

— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck

Words linked to "Sapphic" : homosexual, rhythmic, Sapphic ode, rhythmical, lesbian, Sappho